The light bulb moment

Citing energy efficiency and durability, industry has put LED lights on a pedestal. But is it really time to bid adieu to CFL and the humble …

Heavy metal

Vaccines with mercury can cause autism, but removing the metal is uneconomical for developing countries such as India

Fluorescent lamps energy efficient but with glitches

Just dump it

Acids of arsenic. Organo-mercury compounds. Batteries. Bristles of boars or hogs. More potent stuff: asbestos; slag dross; ash and residues of …

Let there be CFL

See the light CFL is becoming popular in India with a little help from government schemes. But its wide-scale use requires regulation

DANGER zone

If no action is taken soon, a major ecological disaster is waiting to strike Panipat

Mind the mercury

Why no one is checking how mercury-laden CFLs are handled and discarded

The making of CFL...

The manufacturing of Compact Flourescent Lamp at a Havells factory.

Heavy metals in cosmetics

Chandra Bhushan, deputy director general at Centre for Science and Environment talks about the growing cosmetic industry and the presence of …

Slow, but sure, poisons

Explosive shells in scrap metals is one thing. Extremely toxic metals quite another

No one's controlling mercury

Change is in the process

Brinksman

As Le Clemenceau bobs on the horizon, reactions in India get sharper, noisier. We've discovered occupational safety. Asbestos is used in …

Free the air of mercury

Newly launched Minamata Convention weak on mercury released by thermal power plants

Unchecked

Industry flouts weak regulations at will

Unsettling

What the Centre and the state government did to rehabilitate victims

Serving the symptom

The government still does not know what still afflicts people in Bhopal

Foul Debris

The UCIL plant is still a health hazard

Mercury alert in Vermont

Shame!

US EPA's mercury standards panned by own IG

Toxic, to date

Thank you, gold rush

Mercury toys

Kellogg to withdraw them

Clocking in on mercury

N-plants acting up

Laced with poison